How To Test and Sort through USED Power Supplies Very Quickly ($68 Stack) 

Only you would find power supplies that smell like candy.

"Ive friend who brought them up" Look for different friend ;)

Get the magnets from the dead drives and make it into a magnetic parts tray

I have one of these power supply testers myself, according to the manual of my power supply tester you must put some sort of load on the PSU by using either a fan or connecting a mechanical HDD when testing it in order to get a more trustworthy power good reading otherwise that number can not be trusted. These testers are a great way to see if a PSU would be dangerous to hook up to a new system. But they can not check how a power supply behaves under heavy load so you can not fully test the health of a power supply. For that special and expensive testing equipment are needed. Or one must test it in a actual system and see if it works OK under heavy load.

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7:12 Yo, you can't hack up the connection point. The signalling is very different. I have a SAS controller and cables.

Even the Power Supplies are Breaking Bad on the GC.

1:31 I think you confused Seasonic with Seagate

Thanks, this really is going to help me if I ever want to make a used build.

Just ordered one. I hope to start a small business dealing with used parts as well. However this will come in handy even at home. Thx for the great content! Keep it up!

9:36-10:10 Good for you dude. You don't always need to upload. I believe taking your time is more important than consistent uploads which leads to better content and more Tech YES Lovin'.

Word to the wise please stay away from the "Corsair CX430W" Power supplies(I paid $50USD each for them from Amazon), I had 3x of them all went faulty over time, had 1x CX430w that would make a high pitched coilwine sound when the PC was plugged in [while being powered off]. I had 1x CX430 stopped powering up on a intel core 2 quad q9650 HTPC using a older 512MB MSI Twin Frozr GTS 250(6-pin pci express low power graphics card). Reading multiple reviews online- the Corsair CX430w is manufactured by another company & Corsair just throws their sticker on it, many people had problems with this power supply , TBH i'm surprised corsair has not been sued yet!

Woohoo. The Yes Man is back again to bring us all Friday night goodness!

Everyone needs a holiday if for no other reason than to rest and keep your sanity. Well to keep whatever sanity we have left. Good to have you back.

@11:19 All 19 inch servers I've seen so far push air from front to back. They typically have an array of fans that go all the way from left to right. Often with airflow covers that optimize airflow.

really a good spec too look for is the amp . I bought mine in 2011 and its still rocking in 2019 with my 1080 ti.

With PSU tester attached when you turn off the power and the tester is still beeping that indicates the capacitor works. So beeping longer is better. Some cheapo PSU only beeps once or twice, while hi end one will beep much longer. That's based on my personal experience, give me an advice if I'm wrong.

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They smell like candy? Oh they smell like CANDY

Can we have a guideline for buying used hard drives? Thanks for such quality and informative videos Bryan

Great vlog. Thanks for that Bryan. Now we all know. :o) Cheers, Mon from Brisbane

Was wondering where you went. Glad you're feeling recharged.

Thanks alot , that was very useful

Grabbed a few EVGA motherboards off ebay earlier this year. Got a great deal on them, but man when I unwrapped them was no mistaking the smell. Not to mention was surprised the CPU fans could even move, they were caked in so much residue.

Great video, this is exactly how I've been testing old equipment for years. Where did you read that the 3.3v is used for hot-swap? I have a HAF X case with the bottom two 5.25" bays being hot-swap cages, the backplane powers both drives from a single molex connector. I can hot-swap them with no problem, so no 3.3v is used.

i have the same psutester nice thing Q i had a view time after plugging in the 24 port into a motherboard etc i couldn't get to start up, so i unplugged. used the tester, it works normally, I put it back and it works again is that some kind of safety feature? of the motherboard ?

I have had now 2 psu failures where all tested fine and pc booted but as soon as loading os, pc started to slow down and randomly powering down.

How much power can a Xilence Performance x 750w 80+ gold powersupply can handle in terms of pc parts I have a FX 6100 and a GTX 780 is that powersupply enough??

your test bench looks so diy, i could've build it. if it looks stupid but it works, it ain't stupid! keep up te good work!

Tech yes, if I had 500 and not concerned with high fps, but purely visual quality and colour accuracy... What 60fps IPS monitor would best best ?

Question: I tested a brand new Thermaltake Toughpower GF3 1200 Gold. I plugged in 24 pin and an 8 pin ATX (there isn't room on tool to test both 8pin ATX) to one of these testers and it gave me an error on PG = 120ms (supposed to be 100 - 500ms range) All the other voltages were spot on. What does this mean?

I had a HDD once so buggered it vibrated across the desk !? Replaced soon after i was done watching it and laughing 😂

What about smart testing for hdds? Or a bad sector scan? Or did you just not do those because all of those drives were faulty in the first place?

hey guys i have a cheap case with 3 slow front fans and one on the back my quistion is if i replaced the exhuast fan with a higher rpm fan will it improve my case air flow dont have a lot of money right now

2:08 that's ruthless! that's when you know you need to quit

I had an FSP-PSU in my OEM-PC for 10 years. Other than that I heard a rattling sound (coilwhine or weared out fan-bearing) it kept working. The 12V rail could handle somewhat higher power graphics cards (like a 5700 XT). That PC from 2009 also had a duct from the CPU-cooler to the perforated side-panel. I hated that duct because it made it difficult to do anything in the case, including dedusting the CPU-cooler.

Recently bought a box of 45 Harddrives for 40 €. Lovely collection, some SATA some IDE some SCSI. All ages, from like 40 MB to 1.5 TB. 26 of the SATA/IDE ones worked fine so it's already a great bargain. Will loo into the SCSI ones later. I used Crystaldiskinfo and crystaldiskmark to check them out. It's crazy how a really old HD from 1989 gets detected and works just fine under Windows 10 :)

i just got once a used PC which smelled also sweet and smokey, but that was definitely herb based what he took. Not to uncommon next to Netherlands, but with all things you smoke, just don’t, your lungs will not like anything besides of some nice fresh air.

Hi Brian, good to see you back !!! About that tester - what is this data,in lower right, what's this used for ? Using same one, could not get any explanation about .

How does one get PSUs banged up and sticky? Seems like a component that should be hard to abuse.

I recommend picking up a USB-SATA dock for HDD/SSD from Aliexpress. Cheap, some even with metal outer shell and a usb-c connection. I used to go through a heap of drives on daily basis and such a dock makes it super easy to just hot-swap them and and do a quick check with Crystal Disk Info to check if they r alive or not :D

I have seasonic ss 400 watt supply that has all lights up with the tester but with paperclip test the fan turns on and then off in half a second. Also pc doesnt turn on

My. Harddrive is making a tiking noice its 2tb. I cant find it in disk management or in the bios

Bryan, you can still salvage from failing PSUs at least the fans - they can be spare parts for intake fans on an el-cheapo office Pc / easy and quick fan replacement for a PSU faulty fan (i.e. riffle bearing)

you dont smoke at all do you Brian i dont at all if i go near some one that smokes i cant breath very well im sensitive to passive smoke i like that power tester to nice the way you test stuff thanks for that info

The load testing you can use rezistors 1 ohm for 12V 0.8ohm for 5V and 0.5ohm for 3.3V and chek the voltage over rezistor and calculate it with ohms law

I recently cleaned a retro PC VERY throroughly that distincly smelled of pee. Especially inside the DVD drive taht I opned to clean the shell. I am absolutely not sure what to make of that... I suppose I don't want to know. But now that it's all been troroughly washed and put together it's a lovely smelling Pentium 200MMX.

I usually string a few fans on, and then check the volts with my DMM, never got round to buying a tester

Some of the OEM'S still used the CPU air ducting of course those are Workstations and office file and storage servers.

I understand that the Power Good (PG) flashed on the dell PSU, but it's within spec:100-500ms... The dell showed 190.... wish someone could elaborate on this...

One other area to look at is the 24 pin contacts... seen a few over the years where the pins have "opened up" and been arcing.

anyone know if the FSP600-80tbn is an ok psu for a low end gaming pc?

What do you do with tech that is dead? How do you dispose of it?

Do you think that power supply tester is good enough or should i buy Thermaltake Dr. Power II?

Honestly, it seems like the rate of people using that "sticky stuff" is alarming here in the US as well.

Hard drive sentinelwhat is a good program to use to make sure the hard drives are good sometimes even when they're recognized by the BIOS they could still be bad

I have a thermaltake 500w and a 2400g Can I get a rtx 2060?

Another tip from a HDD, SSD horder. Using HWinfo64 to read the drives can tell you if the drive has bad or replaced sectors. It even tells you how long the drive has been powered up (in hours or years) also how many on and off cycles its been through and a lot of other useful info. Even if the drive shows up and works with a OS, doesn't necessarily mean that its good. For example, I have a 1TB TASHIBA dual ported HDD and it loads Windows, games and all. Though 1nce it gets to 850GB's or more, it starts corrupting data when i try to copy data back from the drive. Though, i was very surprised to see the support HWinfo64 has when it comes to reading the remaining drive life of SSD's.

I miss these videos and the days I watched them.

gotham is such a good show I need to see the last season

Most people do not use Seasonic because the vast majority are far more expensive than the $40 that most people think is too much. I have seen some outstanding Seasonic PSUs on sale, seldom however. I see Corsair on sale far more often.

Sticky substance smell is methaphetemine on the power supplies? lol I'm confused

msata ssd's use 3.3v, orange wire on the sata drive connector.

The irony of SAS is that even new/unused older 2TB/4TB 3.5" Enterprise drives can be obtained very cheaply and relevant HBAs cost diddly squat (older cards like the LSI 3442, or newer models like the P400 that support 6Gbit); performance is excellent, eg. the ST3600857SS is a good model, much faster access time than consumer SATA. Even 2.5" SAS is often now quite cheap. I have some benchmark data here: www.sgidepot.co.uk/diskdata.html Many of the same models are available as SATA aswell, but they usually cost more. The down side of SAS from a consumer perspective is that installing an HBA on a consumer mbd will add to the POST time and perhaps some or even most home users would not like that. The nice thing about a dedicated HBA though is they offer good hw RAID options and some can be fitted with battery backup for full power loss protection, etc. It's an interesting option for someone who might like the idea of much better storage reliability for important data such as family photos, eg. 2x 2TB Seagate/Hitachi Enterprise in RAID1 (or 4 disks in RAID10 for both performance and redundancy, this is the modeI I often used). However, perhaps most just prefer the convenience of connecting something like an external USB3 drive to regularly backup their data, though it's bizarre how many home users never do any kind of backup (going to be so many people in future decades who lose their entire media archive when the sole device storing it all dies). The advantage of SAS is that relevant models are less likely to go wrong in the first place, assuming they haven't already had a hard life (though Enterprise SATA should offer the same reliability, even if 15K models are rare; I try to find Seagate ES.3 and newer versions of Hitachi HUS such as the 4TB HUS724040ALE640 - I won one of these recently for 59 UKP, it had very little usage logged). Which raises the biggest concern about SAS, or indeed any disk obtained 2nd-hand, ie. how much it has already been used. Ask for the SMART data if possible. Cheap Enterprise drives could have been running continuously under heavy loads for years, or they may hardly have been used at all. Not an issue with NOS (new old stock) but for used drives definitely something to consider, hence why I always ask a seller if they can provide the summary output from Crystal Disk Info. Some top-end enthusiast mbds have had onboard SAS controllers in the past, eg. the Asrock X79 Extreme 11, but such controllers usually do not come with any cache RAM which rather spoils random 4K performance. If one does ever consider SAS, try to find an HBA which includes some cache RAM (1GB+ preferable) and better still has the option for battery backup. Another advantage of SAS with an HBA: since the HBA stores the info about any defined RAID, a mbd failure will not harm the RAID, something that cannot be said of an ordinary consumer mbd RAID controlled by the mbd chipset and BIOS - if the mbd fails then the RAID could be hard to recover. For really fun storage though, try FC. :) Optical cables, stick the storage unit in the basement, help warm the house in winter. :D

Brian, your test bench savage rig is missing a GTX 280 for dem PCIE lines slurps..

I really want to say one thing. Please read it. I recently bought a PSU for nearly $12. Its probably a local brand in India named "Clarion" It resembles the cheap AliExpress PSUs very much. It says to be a 550W PSU. And it has a name of "Clarion JM-PS-620". It also has a 800W version for $20 which is "JM-PS-920". I have two motherboard of LGA 1156. One is Intel DH55TC and the other one is ASUS P7H55-M Pro. As you know ASUS has the 8pin CPU power connector whereas Intel has 4pin. While using the new clarion PSU (which also has an 8pin CPU power connector and a 6pin GPU power connector) my Intel motherboard suddenly stopped working. The little LED was lighted but the the motherboard would not post. After surfing through lots of videos I found that it may be due to the RTC Crystal. I already had a second motherboard. So I took risk and soldered a new RTC Crystal after removing the old one. And bam! The mobo started working. I ran it with my old 250W PSU which had 4pin power connector. Then after some days due to some reasons I changed the PSU with the "Clarion" one. And again the motherboard stopped working on second boot. Actually the soldered RTC was loosened. I changed it and used the same PSU but this time it is not working after third time. So my question is, "Is it possible that using a 8pin PSU in a 4pin supported motherboard may cause something like power surge? In this case 4 ports are connected to motherboard and the other 4 are lying disconnected. And also the "Clarion" PSU is working fine with the ASUS P7H55-M Pro motherboard that has 8pin CPU power supply port. The good VRMs may also be the reasons for the motherboard kicking still. Please look into this!

The PSU tester is sold on Amazon. The Aliexpress link is broke.

I thought only Linus gets used parts from crack houses, i see its more common, wish i knew where to find one.

dell likes to cut power good out of theyre psus and its not uncommon to run into older psus from dell that dont pass power good and i had to use 1 for my chinese motherboard because the board wouldnt start if power good was present

Giving Power supplies sum tech YES Loving

What people need to understand is that PSU are rated as peak power and also maximum duty based a specific epoch or time in which the PSU is stressed at maximum output (peak) power. One should never hit that peak power output, mind you. They should have a load line of no more than 75% maximum, that's to save the life of the PSU and your system, too.

Could you do a step by step guide on how to use the tester?

OCZ is another excellent brand of power supplies.

Testing a PSU under realistic load conditions is what the majority of users want-- but without risking good equipment with potentially faulty PSUs. Whatever the decision on acceptable risk-- for example, using even a junk system whose components are expendable-- the issue remains checking power output under actual operating conditions. To do that, one source recommends using an extended (unbent) metal paper clip, inserting this into the mainboard connector at the appropriate contact number, then measuring the voltage with an RMS-grade VOM. Does anyone have another good idea?

in my experience, using power supply testers don't really work well for me. i'd rather load it up on a computer that i want to run it with then test it that way. load up games, stress tests, benchmarks. it takes forever but it works 100% of the time.

Testing tips: For ddr3 ram- have a hp z400 system, doesnt need a hdd, when you boot it up with the all your ram to test, it will tell you in post which ram sticks are bad instantly! Psu-psu tester Hdd-hiren boot disc hdd sentinel, gives your the health of the drive and list of bad sectors to determine if the drive is working and is healthy enough go repair and use.

Dead power supplies are usually quite easy to fix. Weak = replace the input capacitors. Dead = replace the switching transistors. A little simplified perhaps but that's basically the case. Also, SAS controllers can be found cheaply on ebay: www.ebay.com.au/itm/x/283541208286

Dude, did you make that CPU cooler yourself or someone helped you?

PSU Brand is meaningless so are what they state on the labels this is why the likes of jonnyguru was great lots of testing and full break down of what is inside. you could re use a lot of those parts from PSU that are dead the likes of the fans the molex connectors even the cables to make your own extensions. They still use those ducts in some gaming pc the design has just slightly changed I saw alienware with one recently

But what about 3,3v for PCI-e? '-'

are you talking about Meth ? right its the only thing i can think of i hate that shit saw some bad stuff as kid so learned the hard way what it does and seeing people use it friends or well kind of friends not really good friends probably would have never been around it unless it was from them but we used to play games and foot ball as kids and then to see them all almost start doing that shit was shitty

I know what you think the sticky stuff was, but FYI its far far more likely to just be vape juice from people vaping, I have done cleanup of the thing you suspect and it is not sticky like that, but vape juice is and smells sweet, vape juice is bar far the worst thing for pc's especially PC fans and coolers.

Aye, I didn't even think about drugs and pc components, fuck me that explains a fair bit xD

damn... he's referring to smoking ice: "Smoking ice" is a term commonly used to refer to the consumption of methamphetamine by smoking it. Methamphetamine, also known as meth, crystal meth, or ice, is a highly addictive stimulant drug that can be smoked, snorted, injected, or taken orally. When methamphetamine is smoked, it creates a white or bluish smoke that is inhaled into the lungs, producing a rapid and intense high that can last for several hours. However, smoking methamphetamine can have serious and potentially life-threatening health consequences, including addiction, cardiovascular problems, respiratory problems, dental problems, and neurological damage.

Thinking you're about the only one that would find a power supply with weed on it. LOL I don knock until you try it though some of it is very good talkin from the old man's perspective!

-12v 11.8 normalll?

5:18 what if they collapse?

i have that hp mb and just ordered a 750 ti :(

too bad you didnt see my post, i have a coolmaster 550w here you could have picked up when you were in Melbourne.

An 80 GB hard drive, that one is old. :) When did we have such low capacities for regular 3.5'' hard drives?

i need one for at psu's

look out for the magic candy smoke

Can't wait to use a Seagate power supply

i would like to know what candy your friend has been smoking

Gotham is amazing what season are you on?

When I was younger I did some computer repair. I once got in a PC that was so nasty from smoking that it still makes me puke thinking about it today. I had to trash the whole thing because everything was caked in a thick layer of tobacco/nicotine/tar and had the foulest smell ever. People, if you smoke, please don't do it near your computer.

so how much 'candy' does $68 guy on the gold coast?

I assume that you refer to cigarettes when talking about unhealthy smoke

Sas drives aren’t compatible with SATA ports anyway